An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Comment: I cannot understand the logic that in a national crisis where lives are at stake – we added on the costs of transport and storage – can you blame some retailers for charging a higher price than normal (Shouldn’t they be charging less in a national emergency crisis?) – knowing that they will be charged for storage and transport as well?
What is the price charged to retailers with a breakdown of the cost, transport and storage, and what was the price paid by the Government?
I understand that there have been reports about issues in the distribution of the 1 million free masks to 200,000 needy families.
For example, I understand that Zao Bao reported that only families with per capita income of $900 were entitled to the free masks. Someone posted that when he went to the Community Centre to collect the free masks, and was asked to produce his CHAS (Community Health Assist Scheme) card and told that he was not eligible because he has a CHAS orange card (income from $901 to $1,500). Only those with CHAS blue cards (income $900 or below) were eligible.
(Note: Orange CHAS card holders are not eligible for the $18.50 common conditions subsidy (that blue CHAS card holders get) when they seek out-patient treatment at the participating private clinics, and also lower subsidies for chronic conditions and dental services than blue card holders)
Others have also commented that grassroots leaders went door-to-door to inform 1 and 2-room HDB rental flat tenants to go to collect their masks, and suggested it may make more sense for the grassroots leaders to distribute the masks instead of asking these obviously needy families to go and collect the masks themselves.
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30-06-2013, 11:10 PM
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